Sefaria

Sefaria

About this app

Sefaria delivers 3,000 years of Jewish texts (Torah, Tanakh, Mishnah, Talmud, and more) to your smartphone. All texts in the library are available in Hebrew along with a growing body of English translations. Search by keyword or browse the table of contents to explore texts, translations, and commentaries. Plus - the entire library can fit on your phone (500MB) so you can learn while you're offline.

Sefaria is a non-profit organization that creates open source software and publishes digital texts with open licenses.

FEATURES

• Calendars for reading Parashat HaShavua, Daf Yomi, 929, Rambam Yomi and Mishnah Yomit
• Offline access to all texts and connections in Sefaria's library.
• Nine Torah commentaries in English: Rashi, Sforno, Or HaChaim, Rabbeinu Bahya, Rashbam, Siftei Chachmim, Chizkuni, Tur HaAroch and Rabbeinu Chananel
• Over 50 commentaries on Tanakh including Ibn Ezra, Ramban, Abarbanel, Kli Yakar, Alshich, Haamek Davar, Malbim, Shadal, Radak, Ralbag and Gur Aryeh
• Over 15 Mishnah commentaries including Bartenura, Ikar Tosafot Yom Tov, Rambam, Yachin, Boaz, Gra and Rosh Mishantz
• Over 30 Talmud Bavli commentaries including Rashi, Tosafot, Ritva, Rashba and Rosh.
• Other genres include Midrash, Halalkha, Kabbalah, Liturgy, Philosophy, Chasidut, Musar, Responsa, and more.

LEARN MORE

New texts are being added to the database all the time. Find out more about the project at: http://www.sefaria.org

Ratings and reviews

Lots of great content. But in an age where translations become the channel that students rely on to access the texts, it is all the more important to stick to traditional readings of the texts. Any other translation can be placed as commentary.. Editors - please add a pop up to allow the user to choose/be aware that a non traditional translation was used. Thanks!

The app is ok. However it doesn't keep your place on the page when you shut the app down. It keeps returning to the beginning of the page rather than where you stopped. It's also slow to load going backwards if you open to a later point, and forwards. I am also not sure why we need to download the library when the app seems entirely dependent on wifi to use. UI is buggy, when I click the "more" link the list appears in it's entirety twice.

The content is really good, but the navigation leaves a lot to be desired in my opinion. For example, earlier today I was looking at some passages in Isaiah and then wanted to go to Ezekiel, I can't use chapter navigation because it only traverses the book I'm reading, I can't navigate "up the tree" as it were but seem to need to go to the root ofbthe texts page and scroll down to the right book.

What’s new

bugfix: links in markdown